Tag Archives: U.S. District Court – Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court denies defendant boat company’s motion to transfer plaintiff’s suit alleging infringement of plaintiff’s patent for a retractable step for a boat swim platform; weighing in plaintiff’s favor are its choice of forum, intent to call ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court grants plaintiffs’ motion to certify a class of employees with two sub-classes in this suit alleging defendant companies violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act by terminating more than 100 employees without providing the ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the validity of defendant’s 2011 Virginia Beach arson conviction; petitioner contends his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to pursue an insanity defense and ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to plaintiff Dominion Virginia Power against defendant coal company for its delivery of 43,361 tons of coke breeze in breach of contracts to provide plaintiff Dominion Virginia Power with a specialized coal ...

In this dispute between a cloud-based computing services company and a software start-up, the Alexandria U.S. District Court reconsiders its earlier ruling allowing defendant software company to counterclaim for conspiracy, and dismisses all of defendant’s counterclaims; given the proximity of ...

The former president and majority stockholder of defendant closely held corporation, who sold her shares of stock to its employee stock ownership plan in exchange for promissory notes and cash, is suing the ESOP as a creditor and not as ...

A Virginia coal company that engaged an Australian-based logistics company to arrange shipping of multi-million dollar coal shovels from Australia, through the Panama Canal to Norfolk, with below-deck storage for protection from the elements, may sue the logistics company in ...

Plaintiffs who lost their home to foreclosure state claims for actual and constructive fraud based on allegations that two representatives of defendant loan servicer Ocwen told them a foreclosure sale scheduled for the following day would be placed on hold ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies a motion to transfer to a California federal court this suit by the Virginia Retirement System alleging defendant Countrywide Securities Corporation made fraudulent misrepresentations in offerings of mortgage-backed securities or residential mortgage-backed securities, or ...

A Norfolk U.S. District Court says plaintiffs who lost their home to foreclosure have stated a breach of contract claim against defendants based on an alleged misstatement of the amount due on their defaulted loan that included the next month’s ...